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HBO's A Song of Ice and Fire
Theta9:
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--- Quote from: mberan42 on 17 Jan 2007, 22:34 ---"The series will begin with the 1996 first book, "A Game of Thrones," and the intention is for each novel ... to fuel a season's worth of episodes. Martin has nearly finished the fifth installment, but won't complete the seven-book cycle until 2011."
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Wouldn't that have been nice? Hell, the fifth book itself that we was "nearly finished" with in 2007 came out in 2011.
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He's gonna die without finishing the story, just like Robert Jordan.
Thankfully I had better sense than to start reading The Wheel of Time.
hedgie:
I basically quit reading Wheel of Time about halfway through. The overall story seemed to get bogged down by an ever-growing Gordian knot of plot threads with none seeming like they'd never get resolved because, basically, Jordan wasn't a good enough writer to get himself out of that corner. I suspect that the same is in play here (although I haven't read Martin's books).
Cornelius:
Well, where he left off, it did start feeling that way to me. But not, I should say, to an extent that it's unsolvable in two books. In another series, I'm waiting for the next instalment, just to see how they're going to manage to pull together the different plot-and timelines. Similarly, it's several years overdue, now. But that writer gave herself only a single book to work it out - which seems ambitious.
zmeiat_joro:
So:
1) my birthday
2) Easter -- the Orthodox one (it's a week apart with the Catholic/Protestant one this year -- it's bigger than Christmas in Orthodox Christianity and although I'm ignostic it means big family gathering at my home town), and
3) the battle of Winterfell will be all on the same day.
zmeiat_joro:
It just occurred to me that maybe they deliberately aired the episode where nobody dies (rather than a normal episode, where someone usually dies) on Catholic/Protestant Easter. Because, you know. Otherwise it might fuel unwelcome speculation and/or upset some people.
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